your Honor
English
Pronoun
- (formal, obsolete, addressing someone of higher rank or status than oneself) you
- 1705 (original: 1626), James Howell, Esquire, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren, page 177:
- Touching the firſt, I refer my ſelf to your honor’s favorable opinion, and the character which my Lord S. and others ſhall give of me
- 1847, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, page 26:
- The numbers of the French have been greatly magnified, as your Honor may see by a copy of the enclosed journal of a person, whom I sent out to gain intelligence.
- 1705 (original: 1626), James Howell, Esquire, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren, page 177:
- (formal, addressing a judge or magistrate) you
Usage notes
Although this phrase is used as the second person pronoun, the verb it governs is conjugated in the third person.
Derived terms
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